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The McNay Museum of Art
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Fralin Museum of Art J. Sanford Miller Family Director Accepts New Role at the McNay Art Museum

Matthew McLendon, Ph.D., The Fralin Museum of Art’s J. Sanford Miller Family director and chief curator, has been appointed as the new director and CEO at The McNay Art Museum, the first modern art museum in Texas. He will continue his duties at The Fralin through late January and begin his appointment at the McNay in San Antonio Feb. 13. The Fralin Museum of Art will launch a national search in the spring for its new director.

December 14, 2022
Linocut by Ramona Martinez
Visual Art

Ramona Martinez: Visions of Mary

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present Visions of Mary, a solo exhibition featuring installation and linocuts of Marian Imagery by Charlottesville-based artist Ramona Martinez, to be held in the Dové Gallery from December 2, 2022 - January 21, 2023. The exhibition will open on First Friday, December 2, 2022 from 5:30-7:30PM. The artist will be present during the opening evening to chat with visitors.

https://www.secondstreetgallery.org/ramona-martinez

Mariana Parisca and Larí García Sinverguenza (detail), 2022 20 minute video
Visual Art

Mariana Parisca: Her Deeds

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present Her Deeds, an exhibition of mixed media works and installation by Richmond, Virginia-based artist Mariana Parisca and collaborators Larí García, agustine zegers, Christine Buckley, Sandy Williams IV, and Paul van den Bijgaart, to be held in the Main Gallery from December 2, 2022 -January 21, 2023. The exhibition will open on First Friday, December 2, 2022 from 5:30-7:30PM. The artist will be present during the opening evening to chat with visitors.

https://www.secondstreetgallery.org/mariana-parisca-her-deeds

An image of a woman presenting from a book
Visual Art

"Frock On" Brings an Expert on Aboriginal Fashion to Charlottesville

The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection hosted an audience in Campbell Hall Friday night for a lecture from Dr. Louise Hamby, an American research fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2022/10/frock-on-brings-an-expert-on-aboriginal-fashion-to-charlottesville?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

An image of a pumpkin projected on the rotunda
Visual Art

The Great Rotumpkin

Spooky, scary images send shivers down your spine at The Great Rotumpkin.

https://www.c-ville.com/pick-the-great-rotumpkin

an image of Buddhist artwork

Something Borrowed - Buddhist Art at The Fralin Shows Cultural Exchanges

Remixing, riffing, playing with memes: These are artistic modes that we sometimes think of as belonging to our own time, but artmaking has involved self-conscious imitation for a lot longer, and in a lot more places—including several hundred years ago in Asia, as revealed in “Earthly Exemplars,” a small exhibition of Buddhist art now showing at The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA.

https://www.c-ville.com/something-borrowed

The decoy ducks represent the culture and history of First Nations people in the region.(ABC Riverland: Sophie Landau)
Visual Art

Decoy Ducks Return to First Nations Owners After Years in United States Collection

Three hand-crafted decoy ducks have been returned to the First Nations people of the River Murray after spending many years in the United States. The ducks are typical of decoys traditionally used for hunting by Aboriginal people living along the river in South Australia. Research from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) has found the ducks were created by Nganguruku and Ngarkat man Robert Joseph Tarby Mason in the 1940s.

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/101522254

UVA's Rotunda with Halloween projection mapping. On the left the rotunda as a jack-o'-lantern and on the right dancing skeletons on the columns of the Rotunda…
Visual Art

Look – It’s the Great Rotumpkin!

One of the University of Virginia’s most iconic landmarks is getting ready for its Halloween-style closeup with the return of the “Great Rotumpkin.” The “spooktacular” Halloween event, which debuted last Fall, will feature a variety of original Halloween projections shown on the Rotunda, including dancing skeletons, bubbling cauldrons, and a haunted house, sure to get the community in the holiday spirit.

October 25, 2022
"Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style, and Racial Uplift"
Visual Art

Revolutionary Black Portrait Exhibition Opens at UVA

During the Jim Crow era, when minstrel shows and racist caricatures accounted for nearly all visual representations of Black people, hundreds of Black Virginians from Charlottesville, Albemarle County and Nelson County commissioned distinguished self-portraits that shattered stereotypes.

https://dailyprogress.com/ap/state/revolutionary-black-portrait-exhibition-opens-at-uva/article_87d4af3e-4e3f-567f-affc-75811df29172.html

Good Morning (detail of 24 Hours of Good, Sequence), 2021 Flashe, acrylic, confetti on paper 18 x 36 inches
Visual Art

Megan Marlatt’s 'Mummers' at Second Street Gallery

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present Mummers, a solo exhibition featuring paintings and sculptures by Charlottesville-based artist (and UVA Professor) Megan Marlatt, to be held in the Main Gallery from October 7 - November 18, 2022.

https://www.secondstreetgallery.org/megan-marlatt